Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ This is to give Great Men to Understand, that No Power upon Earth can Protest them in the Exercise of Tyranny and Injustice; but that Sooner, or Later, Vengeance will Overtake Oppressors. It does likewise Condemn Treachery, and breach of Faith, even toward the most Perfidious. The Morality of This Fiction looks several Ways. Here’s first a League betwixt an Eagle and a Fox ”
